Automated large-scale washing of tableware in eating places
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According to foreign media It is reported that recently, “ DishcraftRobotics ” has received US $ 20 million in round A1 financing, which is funded by new investors Grit Ventures led the investment, with existing investors First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, Fuel Capital and Lemnos participating. To date, the total financing of “Dishcraft Robotics” has reached 46 million US dollars.
In addition, Netflix co-founder and former CEO Marc Randolph and Grit Ventures founder and partner Kelly Coyne will join the company ’s board of directors.
In 2015, Pouliot and Paul Birkmeyer co-founded “Dishcraft Robotics”. By establishing contact with customers ’kitchens and restaurants, The company uses robots and AI technology to Automated high-volume ( up to 10000 pieces) washing tableware in eating places. It provides a full-service dishwashing solutionThe plan can deliver clean tableware to customers every day, which simplifies the customer’s meal preparation process, and can also indirectly effectively reduce the use of disposable plastic, non-compostable tableware.
At the end of the lunch time, “Dishcraft Robotics” will arrive at the customer’s shop, collect all the dirty dishes accumulated in the tray cart, and bring them back to the company, and put them into the cleaning robot for cleaning. “Dishcraft Robotics” The robot uses computer vision technology, sensors, ultraviolet lights and AI technology Automatically sort, scrub, inspect and place tableware. The sensor performs multiple cleanliness checks and can detect residual particles that are not visible to the human eye to ensure that the dishes can be cleaned.
The green business model is the core of the new product promotion of “Dishcraft Robotics”. The company launched a large dishwasher in June last year, The kitchen sells the product. Now, “Dishcraft Robotics” has decided to innovate its service methods to make it easier to sell robot-driven dishwashers to businesses.
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Currently, “Dishcraft Robotics” works in San Carlos, California, and its clients include Affirm and food service company Guckenheimer.
There are 300 restaurants in Alameda, California, 100 of which have signed the Zero Waste Initiative, which caused the city government ’s service to “Dishcraft Robotics” interest. “Dishcraft Robotics” will also use some of the funds from the new round of financing to expand the scale of its cleaning facilities to build a clean and reusable mealDisk solution.